Reporting intellectual capital via intellectual capital statements Empirical evidence suggests that ICR requires a monetary value of intellectual capital to be useful (Amir & Lev 1996; Shevlin 1997; Sveiby 1997b; Thompson 1999). Empirical models have been proposed to measure intellectual capital items (Leibowitz& Wright 1999; Dekker &Hoog 2000). The models use activity based costing to determine cost, and market value to determine revenue. However, according to Walgemoed (1999), measuring depreciation using market value in the model can lead to inaccurate valuations of the firm. However, Grojer (2001) believes that changing the transaction base of financial accounting to include IC items can cause confusion. Another conceptual approach is to report intellectual capital in relation to the “fair value” of the firm and to recognise intellectual revenue or intellectual expense as the difference of fair value between two periods within the traditional accounting system (Abeysekera 2001b)